The Trump Cabinet Is Shaping Up to Be a Total Sausagefest

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Well, now to the governing part. President-elect Donald Trump is about to start making his picks for cabinet members and advisers. Right now, it seems loyalty is the golden ticket into the Trump administration; his potential team is a parade of campaign surrogates and a smattering of people from the private sector, reports Politico. The administration is also looking pretty old, white, and male.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Alabama senator Jeff Sessions have been leading the effort to select the White House team, and reportedly delivered formal transition plans to Trump Tower on Tuesday. Per CNN:

On the transition team, department heads submitted lists of three names for cabinet positions, taking into account Trump’s public statements about who he would like to see in his administration … Given Trump’s limited role in transition planning, sources caution that these potential picks are not set in stone. Trump could veto some or choose to add others to the list.

And speaking of the judiciary, NBC reported earlier this week that former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani could likely fill the attorney-general spot. Giuliani served as the high-profile U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York more than 25 years ago. His appointment there would likely mean New Jersey governor and early endorser Chris Christie would miss out on being the top prosecutor, as has long been speculated. The Bridgegate convictions of Christie’s former allies — and his own potential state investigation into the political lane-closure scheme — makes appointing him to the Department of Justice a little tough. Yet Christie could get another spot — maybe Department of Homeland Security. The New Jersey Advancespoke to some political experts who said it was possible Christie would resign his governorship (his term ends in 2017) and take a spot in the Trump administration — though he might have to settle for one that doesn’t involve Senate approval.

Trump is also planning to look to the business community to fill potential cabinet posts. Trump has said he would make 80-year-old magnate Carl Icahn his Treasury secretary; Icahn has previously said “no way.” Former Goldman Sachs financier and big Trump donor Steven Mnuchin is considered a front-runner for that spot.

The top candidate for Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, was the Executive Producer on Suicide Squad. Make of that what you will.

Other private-sector people who might make their way into a Trump administration, per Politico: 74-year-old Forrest Lucas, founder of Lucas Oil, as secretary of the Interior; 78-year-old billionaire investor Wilbur Ross or Dan DiMicco, a former steel CEO, as Commerce secretary; 70-year-old oil and gas billionaire Harold Hamm as Energy secretary.